Troy University - Palladium Yearbook (Troy, AL)

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Page seven -1, we ,V--X P1 3-,' - ' ' 2 ff f ' V A f - ' ' in , . '--A-fn ----'4-41 ' A W ' see- - '-11 , rs s at lffilisp-42125919 P13 PIZYTON V. DEESE Peyton V. Deese enlisted in the National Guard lrom Dale County, june 26. l9l6. Alter several months of service on the Mexican border he was made a Lieutenant of Company G, lCi7th lnfantry. and sailed with that unit to France in the winter ol l9l7. He saw active service on various sectors of the western front in France, and in the hattle of Chateau Thierry. on july 28, l9l8, he received the wounds from which he died on the 7th of the following September. Lieutenant Deese was a student in the Troy Normal School during the session of l9Il-IZ. being a member of the junior Class. He was twenty-eight years of age when he died.